185. Festivals & Festivities Quiztest Answers(49)
1 Germans love to celebrate at festival time.
2 The English speaking world is much more conservative in celebrating festivals.
3 The most important festivals in Germany are Easter & Christmas.
4 These are celebrated in much the same way as around the Christian world.
5 Easter is known in Germany as Ostern.
6 Christmas is known as Weihnachten.
7 The Osterhase is the Easter Bunny.
8 Many games are played with Easter eggs at Easter time.
9 Sankt Nikolaus comes to homes on the 5th of December
10 Der erste Weihnachtstag is the 25th December.
11 An Adventskalender is an Advent's calendar.
12 An Adventskranz has 4 candles and these are lit each Sunday of Advent.
13 Christmas Eve is known as der Heilige Abend .
14 A Weihnachtsbaum is a Christmas tree.
15 The most famous Christkindlmarkt is held each year in Nürnberg.
16 The best known festivals of the German world are Oktoberfest & Karneval.
17 Karneval is also known as Fasching or Fastnacht.
18 The start to Oktoberfest is always in September.
19 Traditional Oktoberfest is held on the Theresienwiese in the city of Munich.
20 The city best known for the Karneval festival is Cologne.
21 Many people dress in costume for the traditional Faschingsball.
22 Two other well known festivals are the Schützenfest & Winzerfest.
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